People v. Hughes

Mr. Presiding Justice Higbee

delivered the opinion of the Court.

An information was filed to the February term, 1922, of the county court of Jasper county, charging plaintiff in error, Lee Hughes, with unlawfully having in his custody and possession a, motor vehicle, from which the original engine number had been removed, destroyed, altered, covered and defaced, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.

At that term defendant appeared when the case was called and the trial was entered into without any arraignment of the defendant or the entry of a plea of not guilty. A…